Visual Studio Community 2022 - Setup component by component

I added individual component after another to the installation and at first there were not much that could be done with the IDE. Without templates I could not even create projects or even items. Sadly I forgot to make screendumps.

I think I could compile manually before MSBuild was added but here is the first screendump from the installation procedure.

Next stop was when Forms without NET Framework were working. But I also removed all language folders that made the overall structure difficult to comprehend. Which led to me misstakingly removing some folders that were needed.

After that with NET Framework working.

... and with both. So the Blend framework was in place.

Allthough I have never used it WPF worked after some trashed folder were restored.

The full set of templates were not complete until the web technologies were added. Also it was perhaps not necessary but it really relieved to install nvm-windows to handle all old node versions dangling here and there.
Here is NodeJS ...



.. and here is a react project up.

The installation is mainly residing in dotnet/ folders under windows two folders for binaries (common and x86) but also there were not any problems with keeping a big part of the installation on a separate partition amongst my other developing kits and tools.

A lot of things could be tuned by command line executables. Among the most important is devenv.exe, dotnet.exe and of course the compiler csc.exe (Roslyn).

Here is a project set up with dotnet.exe. That is Visual Studio can be assisted from command line:

creating project



and adding it to a solution.

There is probably a lot interesting I have forgotten to document in this haste, as always, but this is at least some documentation of the couple of days it took to understand a part of the ms-windows djungle.

To remember well: Czechoslovakia is not a compiler!